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Record Number: 31152


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Still very rough. No chance of [church] service. Finished George Eliot's "Middlemarch".'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

4 Mar 1917

Country:

off Mozambique

Time

n/a

Place:

other location: on board ship

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Albert Ruskin Cook

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

2 Mar 1870

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Medical Missionary, Church Missionary Society

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

off Mozambique

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

George Eliot (pseud.)

Title:

Middlemarch

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

31152

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Albert Ruskin Cook

Title:

Diary 1917

Location:

Wellcome Library, London

Call No:

PP/COO/G32

Page/Folio:

n/a

Additional Information:

Diary entry, 4 March 1917.

Citation:

Albert Ruskin Cook, Diary 1917, Wellcome Library, London, PP/COO/G32, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=31152, accessed: 28 March 2024


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